The Effect of Active-Participant Experiments upon the Skills of Nursery Class Students to Recognize Measuring Instruments
Preschool children learn through their senses. Children learn language, daily life skills, concepts and many other things through their senses. Thus, preschool educational environments and preschool educational activities should stimulate children’s senses. In this context, preschool science activi...
Saved in:
| Main Authors: | , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Seyit Ahmet Kıray
2017-03-01
|
| Series: | Journal of Education in Science, Environment and Health |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://jeseh.net/index.php/jeseh/article/view/38 |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| _version_ | 1832542605040156672 |
|---|---|
| author | Ozkan Sapsaglam Aykut Emre Bozdogan |
| author_facet | Ozkan Sapsaglam Aykut Emre Bozdogan |
| author_sort | Ozkan Sapsaglam |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description |
Preschool children learn through their senses. Children learn language, daily life skills, concepts and many other things through their senses. Thus, preschool educational environments and preschool educational activities should stimulate children’s senses. In this context, preschool science activities and experiments have positive effects upon children’s development and learning as they contain skills aimed at various senses like observation, relationship establishment, interpretation, inference and discussion. The objective of this study is to determine the effect of active-participant experiments upon the skills of preschool children to recognize and accurately select measuring instruments that are encountered in daily life and used in measuring various magnitudes. In the study, action research method was used. The study was conducted in the school year of 2015-2016 with totally 19 children (8 male and 11 female) aged 48-60 months. A total of 6 experiments (mass, weight, volume, length, temperature and time) were performed in 3 weeks to measure two magnitudes each week. In order to collect the study data, the researchers developed a measuring instrument of totally 6 questions, 3 of which were distracting. As a result of the study, it was determined that the experiments were effective upon the skills of children to recognize and accurately select measuring instruments that were used in measuring daily life magnitudes like mass, weight, volume, length, temperature and time.
|
| format | Article |
| id | doaj-art-b966bf07183a492c8e126b0bdcb1314c |
| institution | Kabale University |
| issn | 2149-214X |
| language | English |
| publishDate | 2017-03-01 |
| publisher | Seyit Ahmet Kıray |
| record_format | Article |
| series | Journal of Education in Science, Environment and Health |
| spelling | doaj-art-b966bf07183a492c8e126b0bdcb1314c2025-02-03T21:52:36ZengSeyit Ahmet KırayJournal of Education in Science, Environment and Health2149-214X2017-03-013137The Effect of Active-Participant Experiments upon the Skills of Nursery Class Students to Recognize Measuring InstrumentsOzkan Sapsaglam0Aykut Emre Bozdogan1GAZİOSMANPASA UNIVERSITYGAZİOSMANPASA UNIVERSITY Preschool children learn through their senses. Children learn language, daily life skills, concepts and many other things through their senses. Thus, preschool educational environments and preschool educational activities should stimulate children’s senses. In this context, preschool science activities and experiments have positive effects upon children’s development and learning as they contain skills aimed at various senses like observation, relationship establishment, interpretation, inference and discussion. The objective of this study is to determine the effect of active-participant experiments upon the skills of preschool children to recognize and accurately select measuring instruments that are encountered in daily life and used in measuring various magnitudes. In the study, action research method was used. The study was conducted in the school year of 2015-2016 with totally 19 children (8 male and 11 female) aged 48-60 months. A total of 6 experiments (mass, weight, volume, length, temperature and time) were performed in 3 weeks to measure two magnitudes each week. In order to collect the study data, the researchers developed a measuring instrument of totally 6 questions, 3 of which were distracting. As a result of the study, it was determined that the experiments were effective upon the skills of children to recognize and accurately select measuring instruments that were used in measuring daily life magnitudes like mass, weight, volume, length, temperature and time. https://jeseh.net/index.php/jeseh/article/view/38Preschool periodScience activitiesExperimentsMeasuring instruments |
| spellingShingle | Ozkan Sapsaglam Aykut Emre Bozdogan The Effect of Active-Participant Experiments upon the Skills of Nursery Class Students to Recognize Measuring Instruments Journal of Education in Science, Environment and Health Preschool period Science activities Experiments Measuring instruments |
| title | The Effect of Active-Participant Experiments upon the Skills of Nursery Class Students to Recognize Measuring Instruments |
| title_full | The Effect of Active-Participant Experiments upon the Skills of Nursery Class Students to Recognize Measuring Instruments |
| title_fullStr | The Effect of Active-Participant Experiments upon the Skills of Nursery Class Students to Recognize Measuring Instruments |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Effect of Active-Participant Experiments upon the Skills of Nursery Class Students to Recognize Measuring Instruments |
| title_short | The Effect of Active-Participant Experiments upon the Skills of Nursery Class Students to Recognize Measuring Instruments |
| title_sort | effect of active participant experiments upon the skills of nursery class students to recognize measuring instruments |
| topic | Preschool period Science activities Experiments Measuring instruments |
| url | https://jeseh.net/index.php/jeseh/article/view/38 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT ozkansapsaglam theeffectofactiveparticipantexperimentsupontheskillsofnurseryclassstudentstorecognizemeasuringinstruments AT aykutemrebozdogan theeffectofactiveparticipantexperimentsupontheskillsofnurseryclassstudentstorecognizemeasuringinstruments AT ozkansapsaglam effectofactiveparticipantexperimentsupontheskillsofnurseryclassstudentstorecognizemeasuringinstruments AT aykutemrebozdogan effectofactiveparticipantexperimentsupontheskillsofnurseryclassstudentstorecognizemeasuringinstruments |